Introduction to Translation of Sahih Muslim
Translator: Abdul Hamid Siddiqui ( Click Here to
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Sahih Muslim is a collection of sayings
and deeds of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) (also known as the
sunnah). The reports of the Prophet's sayings and deeds are
called ahadith. Muslim lived a couple of centuries after the
Prophet's death and worked extremely hard to collect his
ahadith. Each report in his collection was checked for
compatibility with the Qur'an, and the veracity of the chain
of reporters had to be painstakingly established. Muslim's
collection is recognized by the overwhelming majority of the
Muslim world to be one of the most authentic collections of
the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh).
Muslim (full name
Abul Husain Muslim bin al-Hajjaj al-Nisapuri) was born in 202
A.H. and died in 261 A.H. He travelled widely to gather his
collection of ahadith, including to Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria,
and Egypt. Out of 300,000 ahadith which he evaluated, only
4,000 approximately were extracted for inclusion into his
collection based on stringent acceptance criteria. Muslim was
a student of Bukhari.
It is important to realize, however, that Muslim's collection is not complete: there are other scholars who worked as Muslim did and collected other authentic reports.
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